Comments on: The lumpy 3D Earth

By: Links und Videos der Woche (2011/15+16) :: cimddwc

Links und Videos der Woche (2011/15+16) :: cimddwc — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:17:00 +0000

[...] Viele tolle 3D-Bilder (für Rot-Blau-Brillen), u.a. von der klumpigen, kartoffeligen Erde (via Bad Astronomy) [...]

By: mike burhart

mike burhart — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:30:24 +0000

Even tho the Earth is round it is not a perfect sphere as this shows in nature rarely is there perfect gemontry.By the way there is a group called the flat Earth socitey that beleves the Earth is a flat disk and is very anti-science they are one of the driving forces behind the so called Moon landing hoax in fact they say that no one has gone into space the space program is a hoax they say.Forturenly this group is not big and only has a few members and Phil to deal with.

By: Lavocat

Lavocat — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:32:17 +0000

The Yellowstone caldera looks like an acne pustule about to burst.

Ewwww.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:29:05 +0000

What’s up with Hawaii?

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:15:16 +0000

@ ^ Lila : Or does Earth need planetary liposuction or a regular jog out to Pluto’s orbit & back?

By: Lila

Lila — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:24:41 +0000

Oh my…not too flattering. A good wardrobe stylist could help hide those unsightly lumps.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:09:26 +0000

This is somewhat unrelated, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to know for a long time. I discovered ‘stereoscopic images’ almost a decade ago now, where you see a 3D image by crossing or relaxing your eyes. This technique allows full color 3D images without the need for any glasses, whereas anaglyphs have limited color reproduction, require the viewer to have special glasses, and often provide unsatisfactory results.

So why are all these space related images released as anaglyphs instead of stereoscopic images? I get very depressed when I boot up my work computer in the morning, see something cool like this come across, and must, yet again, pass on experiencing it…

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:05:15 +0000

It looks as though much of western North America is the super volcano with Wyoming at it’s crater.

By: Michel

Michel — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:57:08 +0000

@One Eyed Jack
Ok, it has the ark, but still it ends correctly in 2012…
;^)

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:55:52 +0000

@ 2. Erin N. : “I can’t wait until a globe manufacturer creates a physical representation…”

I happen to own one small globe with a very big dent in it! I keep saying the dent (over the Pacific & northern Queensland, Australia) must represent a major impact event but perhaps it was just an early draft attempt at accurately representing this!